Women and Economics

her fill-the-room grin brightens the scene and you think to yourself, “gee, I wish I could be as famous as her.” Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Abigail Adams, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Beyonce are a few names that come to mind when we think of “famous women in history.” In a high school assembly I learned that there are a few kinds of people in the world: those who make the news, those who report the news, and those who watch the news. The news is like watching history in the making, and so many…

The New American Girl In the passage from Babbitts and Bohemians: The American 1920s by Elizabeth Stevenson, the flapper is the main focus. During the 1920s, the flapper girl was suddenly there. With them they brought new styles and manners. People either loved the new American girl or loathed them. Either way, the flapper left just as fast as she came. Although she was only here for a short period of time, she had a huge influence on the 20s. Stevenson writes about the flapper girl to show the…

In all three of the Vignettes, Esperanza seems to have struggled with self definition or identity. In “My Name,” Esperanza says her great grandmother was a “wild horse of a woman” who didn’t want to marry but was forced into it (Cisneros ). She then goes on to comparing her name with the number nine as if the number is unlucky. This proves that she doesn’t want to end up like her great grandmother, but she does know that one day, no matter how strong she is, the same thing will happen…

something very similar- she puts out a picture of herself that she has altered, because she thinks that is what the men she is looking for want to see. Both of these women, then, misrepresented themselves in the hopes of finding love; however, fundamental differences in their personalities and lives created very different outcomes…

The media has such a huge impact on what people think is right and wrong and when it comes to body image, women and young girls often have a hard time finding a “realistic body” to compare to theirs. Advertisements in the media have given this false “ideal” body image that women and young girls try to compete with and obtain in order to be deemed beautiful in the eyes of others. This false image can lead to early dieting and eating disorders in adolescence and adulthood. At a young age girls…

Beating all Odds Growing up you feel like anything is possible, you are given certain ideas that any dream or goal you have can be met with hard work behind it all. Is this always true? Maybe, maybe not? I want to introduce you to my cousin Melina. This young woman, I viewed as my oldest sister. She was born and raised in the Coachella Valley to a teen mother named Diana. Melina grew up in a broken latino family, with her father leaving her as a child. She then had a stepfather who wasn’t the…

1. Ladies in Lines follows a group of women as they’re trained for the armed forces and follows their struggles and achievements. Normally we would associate the armed forces with men but with Ladies in Lines we see and learn that women can be trained up for the armed forces just like men are. Women are usually seen as being innocent and so at first we wouldn’t expect the women in Ladies in Lines to be able to cope with their new environment in the training centre. However, Ladies in Lines…

Marge Piercy’s, “Barbie Doll,” uses a variety of literary elements including language, tone, and irony, to discuss the treatment, or rather mistreatment of women in our world. The girl in the poem ends up killing herself after being harassed for her lack of feminine charm, the poem written in 1973 makes the reader question the way women are viewed and the heavy repercussions these expectations may carry. Piercy’s view of the way the world treats young girls is illustrated through the language…

my favorite service of any religion. At the end we got to ask two women about the faith. One was a younger wife and her children and the other was an old woman. They answered many of our questions. They told us that the person leading the service stood higher than the others, on an altar of some sort, because that is what Muhammed did. We asked when girls start to wear the hijab and we got slightly different answers from the two women. They both agreed that it usually starts at puberty, the…

actually affecting the girl. Also, I feel that in commercials they really degrade women. It almost seems that they have to flaunt everything that they have to be a capable companion. However, I must say, that is very luring and makes you want to buy the product they are selling. Then for mes ads, they are very masculine and biased. Almost all commercials about men I saw included them doing some handy work but they never show women doing that. They also see that no matter what situation you are…